Levnesovia

Name: Levnesovia.
Phonetic: Len-ve-so-ve-ah.
Named By: H.-D.‭ ‬Sues‭ & ‬A.‭ ‬Averianov‭ ‬-‭ ‬2009.
Classification: Chordata,‭ ‬Reptilia,‭ ‬Dinosauria,‭ ‬Ornithischia,‭ ‬Ornithopoda,‭ ‬Iguanodontia,‭ ‬Hadrosauroidea.
Species: L.‭ ‬transoxiana‭ (‬type‭)‬.
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Uncertain due to lack of remains.
Known locations: Uzbekistan‭ ‬-‭ ‬Bissekty Formation.
Time period: Turonian/Coniacian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial skull remains of a few individuals.

       Levnesovia is a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur that lived in Uzbekistan during the early part of the late Cretaceous.‭ ‬Hadrosauroids were the descendants of the iguanodonts that were common in the late Jurassic/earliest Cretaceous,‭ ‬and the precursors of the hadrosaurids that were common during the final ten-fifteen million years of the Cretaceous.

Further reading
-‭ ‬A new basal hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan and the early radiation of duck-billed dinosaurs.‭ ‬-‭ ‬Proceedings of the Royal Society B:‭ ‬Biological Sciences‭ ‬276‭(‬1667‭)‬:2549-2555.‭ ‬-‭ ‬H.-D.‭ ‬Sues‭ & ‬A.‭ ‬Averianov‭ ‬-‭ ‬2009.



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